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Microsoft Releases Office for Mac With Apple Silicon Compatibility, Universal Build Still in Beta [Updated]
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You don’t know many Pros. Revenue from Adobe shows they make a killing off their products and that their use base dwarfs Affinity (itself w/ well over 1 million users myself included) never mind Pixelmator which is far less.
I think Office is Microsoft's bread and butter now, they don't want their customer to look else where.
That Microsoft Office logo/picture with the four rounded corners slightly outlined always makes me think I have a hair on my screen
How long did you try to wipe off the hair from your monitor screen.... until you realized?
This should be what your looking for
Microsoft is releasing a non-subscription Office suite in 2021
The company has been pushing Microsoft 365 for years now as the main way to get its Office apps.
www.engadget.com
Hahaha oh that’s one of my favorites! The old “your experiences don’t match mine so you’re a fraud” MR trope. Haven’t heard that one in awhile — thanks for the good laugh, and have fun on the schoolyard.
Ahem,
this isn't 'quick' by Microsoft jumping on Silicon-car ... this is just an updated x86 build while Microsoft needs (or is taking their sweet time) to create native build of MS Office suite.
Don't give them credit, it's not due until they ship
I'm MORE interested to finding out what features are STILL restricted on MacOS that have always been that way (or almost always).
2010 Office allowed using .PST files yet even up to 2016 you still cannot create PST files - not from an O365/M365 or MS Exchange server (on-premises) account. Not to mention so many 4th party Excel Add-ins STILL not compatible. Sure, for add-ins it's solely that particular company is at fault, yet if Microsoft is not advising them of compatibility, they'll not even blink an eye.
Lets see these M1 based Mac's make SuperFly of all kinds of work by users in corporate offices over the next few years and THEN we'll see major industry changes by large and small companies to make premier and quality software for the Mac.
Who else hates it when developers display auto update notifications that contain no release notes and not even a link to see the release notes before installing? Instead, they just scream "UPDATE ME" and expect users to blindly install updates with no information provided.
Thank you for the reply and please excuse my ignorance. I have dowlnoaded Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote from the App Store. I do not see a Microsoft Auto Update option.
No ignorance on your part. It looks like the App Store version of office is tied into updates being pushed through the Apple App update process and thus don't give you access to the beta versions. If you had purchased an office 365 licence direct from Microsoft then those come with the Microsoft Auto Update App.
Hopefully the beta will be pushed to the current live version soon and you can receive updates through the App Store. Worst case you may need to run under Rosetta 2 for a short period.
The beta does not install separate versions, it will overwrite the current version with the latest beta version.
The current version of Beta is 16.45 - what are you seeing when you check Excel > About Microsoft Excel.
Note you can't run the Beta if you purchased Office via the Apple App Store.
So it is just Outlook that is reverting to Intel then ? I don't use Outlook myself but all the other office apps work fine for me.
I have found the problem, the new look only works with Microsoft hosted Exchange on 365 Servers, it will not work on a companies own Exchange server at this time.
support.microsoft.com
Requirements section
An Office 365, Outlook.com, or Google account.
The new Outlook for Mac - Microsoft Support
An introduction to the new Outlook for Mac.
Requirements section
An Office 365, Outlook.com, or Google account.
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It's only the new look that does not function for on premise at the moment. You can still use the old look.
Could someone already check, if I can open an .PST File within the new Outlook Mac Beta (without importing it). Do have some archives.
At the moment I have to start a Windows-VM to have a look at those archives (with M1 and Big Sur not possible).
At the moment I have to start a Windows-VM to have a look at those archives (with M1 and Big Sur not possible).